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first time I heard Malcolm X. I didn't even know of his existence when I went up to what was billed as an African Freedom Day rally in Harlem. It was a Muslim rally and they all were waiting for Malcolm. But in his rhetoric, he really grouped all whites together, although he specified groups. He was anti-white.
Oh, yes, he really was.
He was anti-Christian--
Up until the latter part of his life.
Yes. Of course. This was when he was sort of a chief of staff, I guess, to Elijah Muhammad. He was anti-Christian and more specifically anti-Catholic in his rhetoric. My recollection is he put this somewhat in the framework of colonialism and that sort of thing. And then he made anti-Semitic remarks. Of course, there is a common denominator, all white. Not all Christians are white, of course, but I think that he was considering them white in the way that he made his remarks.
I thought he lost a lot of time with those kinds of things. I think if he had spent most of his time on the problems that he had to address rather than these accusations and the-- I used to argue with him about that.
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